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LIVE FOR 2025 | US Correspondent Rich Reynolds talks Trump, Trudeau and Trophies
Jan 13, 2025
Much like President-elect Trump, BayRadio's US Correspondent is back for 2025.
As always, there was plenty on the agenda for his Tuesday catch up with Kal that came just a couple of weeks ahead of the presidential inauguration...including a look at how Donald Trump's policies could impact Europe's economy and politics, as Elon Musk also begins to play politics abroad.
There was also discussion on the tragedy in New Orleans that happened not long after Rich had returned from visiting the exact spot over Thanksgiving, plus a notable mention of former President Jimmy Carter and the schedule for his state funeral.
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caught a past for Mainland Spain he's
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back and he's here in the studio just
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like a rash I keep coming back like
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dandruff Rich rolds how happy New Year
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Happy New Year to you too we got the
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band back together how are things all
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right everything's great every was a
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very very quiet New Year a lot of lot of
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fireworks in Valencia but there always
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fireworks in Valencia so we uh thank God
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we don't have any of the the snow that's
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hitting the states right now but yeah it
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it was it was good uneventful yeah big
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weather situation pretty much all in
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January for the UK and for the states um
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it's not good is it five dead so far I'm
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looking for the latest headlines here um
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it's it's not well loads of school
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closures travel chaos power Cuts seven
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US states have declared emergencies
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Maryland Virginia West Virginia Kansas
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Missouri Kentucky and Arkansas yeah and
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so we're we're doing a shout out to a
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lot of people live in those States who
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may may be listening right now it's a
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terrible situation for them you know
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mainly for these people who are flying I
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mean 2 300 flights canceled 9,000 delays
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it's it's a bit of a mess but you know
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what if you look back it always happens
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in January anyhow no matter where you go
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unless you're in Australia the the
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weather is is horrendous in January and
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and you're going to get this sort of
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thing so you just have to be kind of
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patient and uh and uh and just watch
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yourself the the you know the governor
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of Kentucky was saying it Andy Basher
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who was saying it just correctly uh you
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know stay off the roads don't be driving
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around and it's it's you know you see
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we're seeing all these videos of these
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ter terrible accidents and you know I
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don't know about you but I've been into
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a few of those that you know you feel
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stupid because you know what am I doing
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driving around I'm going to get a qu of
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milk or I'm going to get some chips or
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something like that sounds like you hey
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come on now the candy bars s i do I give
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my give my give my life for a bounty bar
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so yeah yeah yeah all all good stuff but
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yeah so my heart is out to everybody
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who's going through this 190,000 people
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without power Ian I guess cuz this is a
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regular occurrence in in some states not
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all by by any stretch of course cuz some
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areas that have been hit aren't normally
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hit um but those that normally are
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surely they're kind of ready for this
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right they they yeah Washington DC yeah
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Washington DC was was prepared something
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interesting happened in a city that I
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used to live in in St Louis and that St
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Louis is pretty much divided in half on
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the Illinois side and the Missouri side
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the Illinois the Missouri side they
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weren't ready for all the snow they got
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they didn't plow the roads and that sort
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of thing but on the on the Illinois side
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uh Illinois you know home of Chicago
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gets a lot of snow they were well
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prepared they had salted the roads and
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those those uh roads are completely
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passable so it it varies from state to
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state city to City you know about uh how
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well they they did but this this cold
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front just hit the the middle part of
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the country just starting like in Kansas
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and going all the way to Maryland so
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it's a little crazy right now now of
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course we'll be talking about the
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inauguration coming up on the 20th
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shortly but today and for the past few
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days of course it's been all about a
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former president yeah Jimmy Carter U as
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as everybody knows was 100 years old
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when he passed away um a week or so ago
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and he was by all um by all estimates a
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wonderful human being he could be a
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little prickly at times I understand uh
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from everything I've read and everything
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I've heard because a lot of the time you
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were on a he he was in power right
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you're going to tell me it's not that
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long ago but it is isn't it that is true
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I was on the air during during the
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Carter presidency I was on the air
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during the Nixon presidency too before
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that but he was uh I was on the air the
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day that Nixon resigned as a matter of
3:42
fact but that that that you know that
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age joke aside um yeah he was a really a
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wonderful human being he had a very
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troubled presidency for four years he
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really took a lot of hits uh he went in
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just like Trump so everybody needs to
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know he he came in saying I'm going to
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change everything I'm just you know the
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only thing I like at the time being as
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young as I was cuz you know I'm a little
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bit younger than you was the fact that
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he was a peanut farmer that's what I
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remember you know yeah but he was just a
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very guy and he was teaching teaching uh
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uh Sunday school up until he was 97 and
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he had a you know he had brain cancer
4:17
five six years ago and he you continue
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to work through this and you know
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everybody said well that's going to be
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the end of Jimmy and he didn't he lasted
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and lived another another five or six
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years and but he had a great life you
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know and uh and I think everybody should
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take their hat off to this man he was a
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wonderful human being so he's been lying
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in Repose as they call it and will be
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heading for that state funeral yeah he's
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he's he's lying in Atlanta right now
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being guarded by uh uh uh service
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members and then they he begins the long
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trip I think by train they bring him up
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to they bring him up to Washington and
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he'll lion State there and uh you know
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the interesting thing is we all heard
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the same thing is that you know there's
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a 30-day
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uh na uh time of morning so so for 30
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days all the flags are going to be
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flying at half staff around the country
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and how upset Trump was when that
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happened and he said that shouldn't be
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allowed you know for my inauguration
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well well muchacho it's not about you
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you know it's not not everything is it's
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not about you not until after the 20th a
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man has died and so a little respect
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there so uh we'll see uh we'll see what
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happens but yeah the flags will be
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flying at half staff uh for the
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inauguration might have felt a little
5:30
bit different had he been a republican
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you know oh yeah I can guarantee it but
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you know one thing that's kind of
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surprised me is that he said some really
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nice things about Carter he has been
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very very complimentary and he said he
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was a wonderful man and he'll be missed
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and everything and I said really he said
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that well you know if actually you can't
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really argue with his legacy if you read
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through a lot of what's been written and
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then some fantastic pictures from you
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know Years Gone by you know you can't
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help but be moved by by the man and how
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great he was for you know his period of
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time when he was you know basically
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leading the Free World yeah he was no he
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he was not a very colorful man but but
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he had a lot of detractors but um he
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will be missed and just the stuff he did
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with Habitat for Humanity built hundreds
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and hundreds and hundreds of homes for
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people along with a lot of other people
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I mean he didn't do it he didn't do it
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by himself but uh he was uh pretty much
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a nice man never met him never worked
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with him so okay fair enough um now New
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Orleans um we we had a number of
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incidents over the festive period uh
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this one of course the uh the New Year's
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Day Massacre New Orleans and they're
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building up for a couple of big events
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and obviously they're really going to
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have to get on top of the security now
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which probably was not as good as it
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should have been uh nothing down there
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you know and I I can say this because I
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lived down there for a long time and
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that the city itself was not prepared
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for this um
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I I was on Bourbon Street quite a bit um
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three weeks ago when I was there with my
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family and um clearly there was no there
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were cops everywhere but there was no
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protection you could have easily run a
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car down there if you wanted to um this
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is and you said there were actually this
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was before this event when you were in
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the studio with us we were talking um
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and and you were telling Moody and I
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that um there were something like seven
7:25
shootings just the time that you were
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there yeah just and that and that was a
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day of a regular football game being
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played at the super doome about 70,000
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people this is what that the the place
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holds but they had uh seven shootings
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that night alone and that was just a a
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regular Saturday night and it was kind
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of kind of weird how that happened it's
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a very unsafe I'm sorry it gives you an
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idea about of how perhaps the how
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unsecure or insecure it is it it is and
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and so when you read the accounts of of
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of the police Chiefs being told that you
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have these barricades you just chose not
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to put them up she said I have no idea I
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had no idea we even have these
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barricades really and you're in charge
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so this is kind of this this really is a
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city where the left hand doesn't know
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what the right hand in front of the
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world's press as well really I know and
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and you've got I'm telling you February
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9th you got the Super Bowl coming up and
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just so to all of you who people are
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listening who are not American they know
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the Super Bowl is in a different city
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every year it's like next year could be
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in Minnesota it's usually in a warm
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climate could be in Tampa could be in in
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Miami Los Angeles that sort of thing but
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this year New Orleans was granted and I
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mean the Super Bowl okay it will attract
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huge crowds yeah centered on one
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location where of course Migra is not M
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gr is right across all kinds of
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different m is completely around the
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city it's you know it's even more open
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to that sort of type of attack with a
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vehicle very much especially those big
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pickup trucks there are yeah there are a
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lot of truck floats there are a lot of
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those truck parades and uh
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just on flatbeds and people have their
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Crews who are you know throwing out
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beads and deons and that sort of thing
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and and uh matter of fact when when I
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lived there we used to mainly go to the
9:10
ones out in the suburbs but the same
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amount of people go to these things I
9:13
mean it would be easy because they're
9:15
held on main roads it would be easy to
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take your truck and or your car and just
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plow down and and kill lots of people if
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you wanted to do that God God forbid so
9:25
I think you know the FBI saying hey the
9:28
the chance this happening again pretty
9:30
good well I mean there's going to have
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to be a huge security effort to to try
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and keep people safe but but you know
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for for Super Bowl you'll have about a
9:38
little over 70,000 people in the super
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doome yeah but uh which is right it's
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it's called it's in an area called the
9:44
central business district it's right
9:46
outside the French Quarter about about
9:47
three or four blocks but um but
9:50
everybody when they're down there's
9:51
nothing to do around there so when that
9:53
game is over they're all going to go
9:54
into the French quarter and that's when
9:56
the trouble is going to start um and
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then come up Marty gr's March 4th and
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that's that's a late marra usually marra
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can be as early as around February 5th
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or so so it's going to be late this year
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meaning the weather's going to be nice
10:11
everybody's going to be
10:12
out St stay tuned well we'll keep we'll
10:15
keep the breast of it meanwhile uh the
10:18
FBI continue their investigation into
10:21
the attacker both in the US and abroad
10:24
they're finding out more and more about
10:25
him I mean he's been traveling across
10:26
the planet over the last month few
10:29
months or so um and been to different
10:32
countries and there was obviously there
10:35
could have been or should have been some
10:36
warning signs there about the shamsu
10:40
djabar well the thing that that has to
10:42
be pointed out is that regardless of his
10:44
name because he recently converted to
10:46
Islam like in the past few years but
10:48
when he was he's from the uh US military
10:51
yeah I think it's important that we
10:52
point this out because you can always
10:53
got the detractors and people saying oh
10:54
it's another immigrant attack which of
10:56
course he wasn't and neither was the uh
10:59
the the the chap in the in the in the
11:01
vehicle that blew up outside the Trump
11:03
Tower right in Las Vegas and I pointed
11:06
this out to somebody who I said well
11:07
this is and this friend of mine works in
11:09
the news business but hadn't heard the
11:11
story and I said well this happened and
11:14
uh you know they think it's a terrorist
11:16
act and she says well thanks Joe Biden I
11:19
go had nothing to do with Joe Biden it
11:20
had to do with this guy was an American
11:22
soldier who would in they were both in
11:24
the military they were they were and
11:25
they both served in Afghanistan so
11:27
there's a case where you know it was
11:30
just somebody who went off their rocker
11:31
who had an axe to grind and just was not
11:34
not completely uh uh playing with the
11:37
full deck playing with a full deck
11:38
that's that's a good way to put it so
11:40
and I I guess that's has a society
11:42
implication anyway because you know
11:44
we're we're pretty much like that in
11:45
lots of different countries around the
11:47
world where you know people who walking
11:49
the streets perhaps shouldn't be walking
11:50
the streets but they don't have access
11:52
gun to we American well that's true the
11:54
upcoming inauguration now and Congress
11:58
certified Trump's election Victory
12:00
overnight hour time CA Harris having to
12:03
bring in the guy that she tried to beat
12:05
oh my God I watched that happens
12:06
sometimes doesn't it it does it's
12:08
happened three times in the past 50
12:10
years it was the time thing I you
12:11
mentioned Nixon before but wasn't it
12:13
Nixon who was like I'm not going to do
12:14
it hadn't been done for so long and then
12:17
he didn't want to do it and then he did
12:18
he didn't he did it in the end he did it
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he did yeah he did he stood up there and
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but it hadn't happened for a while when
12:23
when it came up for him it hadn't so it
12:25
was Nixon you know people normally think
12:27
that oh if you're vice president you got
12:28
a really good shot being president yeah
12:30
not so much so much not so much I mean
12:32
Al Gore had to do it in 2000 he had to
12:34
stand there and and you bring in the guy
12:37
that beat you I know it's hard and I
12:39
watched it yesterday and it was the
12:41
whole thing took about a half an hour
12:42
all the voting uh and it was a little
12:44
weird because what you mean voting why
12:46
they have to vote again they were voting
12:47
again they had there was a tally sheet
12:49
on the right hand side that said Harris
12:52
has this many votes and this is how many
12:54
uh so they have to go through it again
12:56
yeah she had to actually live it this is
12:58
how I lost she knew knew how it was
12:59
going to end she knew what the final
13:01
number was yeah she was sitting there
13:02
and every state had to go through and
13:04
and every state would say I didn't
13:06
realize I had to do that oh my God and
13:08
but it was like there were about three
13:09
or four Senators that would stand up and
13:12
and uh uh say the representatives from
13:16
uh Maine cast such and such cast their
13:19
three votes or four votes for kamla
13:22
Harris and then the next one would say
13:24
I'm from Texas and Texas cast their 20
13:26
or 30 votes and bit of a difference to
13:28
four years ago here because nobody
13:30
disputed this right yeah nobody and it
13:32
wasn't even televised but this time it
13:34
was and I I I have to tell you she stood
13:36
up there she took it like a champ you
13:38
know and she didn't have to do well she
13:40
actually did have to do it but she was a
13:41
you know she was a real adult I'm sure
13:43
there was I'm sure there was somebody
13:45
who didn't do it when they were meant to
13:46
I don't know what's his name I can't I
13:48
know cuz I was just reading through the
13:49
history of it and the Name Escapes me
13:51
now but like you were saying it's only
13:52
happen only happened a few times um and
13:55
and I'm sure there was somebody who
13:56
didn't and I can't remember who it was
13:57
now but anyway well I know that I know
13:59
that uh uh Al Gore did it in 2000 2001
14:04
actually and I know that uh Nixon did it
14:07
in in uh in 61 with JFK but uh yeah I'm
14:13
not sure anyway um anyhow that's it all
14:15
it all passed off without uh any Ado as
14:18
it were yeah it was no no big deal MH It
14:21
All Happened it's all done and and uh
14:24
he's he's heading for the chair it was
14:26
um the big chair yeah they um but did
14:29
refer to her as Madame President but
14:31
that was because she's president of the
14:32
Senate she's president of the sen there
14:34
was I was like what I'm sure when
14:35
somebody said that she said that's
14:38
right that I'll see you in four years
14:41
boys oh I don't know you reckon I don't
14:44
know that's nobody sure about what
14:45
they're going to do there are they I
14:46
don't know but you know I I saw a recent
14:47
poll here we go with polls again I saw a
14:49
recent poll that 41% of Democrats would
14:52
like to see her run again and I'm
14:53
thinking I don't know that's not 50%
14:55
though is it no I don't know and that's
14:57
Democrats only anyway way to the main
15:00
man four years after his supporters
15:02
invaded the capital uh Trump is more
15:04
powerful than ever said the CNN politics
15:07
headline today well there was no Riot
15:09
yesterday that was a good thing and we
15:10
were all happy about that and I I know
15:12
all I mean they had every every cop in
15:15
the city uh mobilized uh ready to uh uh
15:19
step in and do what they had to do but
15:21
thank God none of that happened but uh
15:23
yeah he's uh everything we're reading
15:25
saying he's he's feeling very empowered
15:28
very emboldened uh more powerful than
15:30
ever and I I you know I think if if he
15:32
looks at it right now the way he's
15:34
cozing up to musk this is turning out to
15:37
be he's getting much more attention than
15:40
I think even he planned on getting but I
15:43
I I got a a theory of personal theory
15:45
about roosters in the hen house and I
15:47
think you can't have two leaders of the
15:49
Free World and right now musk I think
15:51
kind of thinks he's the the leader of
15:53
the Free World a little bit excited
15:54
isn't he a little bit excited you know
15:56
and and we all saw that that uh bit
15:59
video where Trump says well you know he
16:01
can't possibly be president because he
16:02
wasn't born here and I'm thinking boy
16:05
you ain't you ain't reading the room you
16:07
you not saying it people are saying that
16:09
between the
16:10
lines uh he's the president it's not
16:13
he's we know he can never be but but uh
16:16
I think eventually that marriage May
16:18
crumble a little bit because they're
16:21
both they're both types I to say both
16:23
have males yeah both I was thinking
16:25
exactly the same thing this morning I
16:26
was like that's not going to it's not
16:28
going to last yeah but he's got but he's
16:30
really you know flailing around and he's
16:33
uh he's uh you know threatening to do
16:35
one thing or other and and certainly as
16:38
uh as you and I were talking well a
16:40
pardon I think is the main thing is are
16:42
the January the 6th writers as a whole
16:45
all going to be given a pardon that
16:47
would seem to be the focus of most of
16:48
the American breakfast news this morning
16:50
yeah I I think he said he will on day
16:52
one he said he will but I think I
16:55
hopefully cooler heads will prevail
16:57
because there are people who are who
16:59
were convicted to uh 15 or 20 years in
17:02
jail not all of them got a year a slap
17:05
on the wrist there was some quite
17:06
serious crimes committed and of course
17:08
the the the police in the capital are
17:10
not happy about the fact that he's been
17:11
saying that he might pardon everyone
17:14
yeah um and I think a lot of a lot of
17:16
Republicans have been saying that they
17:18
it needs to be done in a case-by case
17:20
basis they're not they're split on this
17:21
aren't they Republicans they are and I
17:23
hope that I hope that's the case I hope
17:24
he doesn't issue a blanket paron because
17:26
there are some you know a couple of
17:28
people who killed police officers on
17:30
that and they you know a couple people
17:32
were were maimed for a long time and
17:34
it's I I don't think you'd sweep this
17:36
under the carpet by letting everybody go
17:37
it's it's not the same as as Joe Biden
17:41
pardoning his son it is not the same as
17:44
pardoning a white collar criminal these
17:45
were physical acts people got killed
17:48
it's uh and you know we all remember
17:50
what happened four years ago and it was
17:52
it was just uh just awful so yeah and it
17:55
kind of still leaves a lot of us um
17:58
incredulous um what was it he said uh
18:00
summoning the crown the mob to
18:01
Washington saying fight like hell yeah
18:05
um and yet here he is uh coming coming
18:07
back on the 20th of this month yeah so
18:09
he'll he'll be taking taking charge with
18:12
with musk at his side uh one of the
18:14
people who was convicted and is uh
18:17
confined to home uh home confinement and
18:20
has an ankle bracelet on asked the judge
18:23
to take the ankle bracelet off so he
18:24
could attend Trump's inaugural he really
18:27
did he stormed the C capital is doing
18:30
time and he wants to be let out and the
18:31
judge of course said no I don't think so
18:34
no you will not be attending the
18:35
inaugural but but one of the questions
18:37
that that you and I need to address it's
18:40
about musk and and it's his effect on
18:43
the rest of the world that's that's what
18:46
really well he's PE off about four of
18:48
the European leaders at the moment
18:50
including sakir stama um and it's
18:52
relatively different stuff but his his
18:54
his support for what seems to be far
18:57
right policies and far politicians
18:59
basically that's getting under the
19:01
collar of most of the people that he's
19:03
been attacking well is it is it getting
19:05
under the collar of the the regular
19:07
people who live in the UK or just under
19:09
starmer's collar that's the big question
19:12
well I think generally people would say
19:13
mind your own business but you know
19:17
um it's I don't know why or what you
19:21
don't quite understand why why would
19:23
this be happening now why is why is Elon
19:25
Musk the richest man in the world who's
19:27
going to be looking after let's face it
19:29
wastage of money in government
19:31
departments in the United States having
19:33
a lot to say about um how other world
19:35
leaders can conduct their business ahead
19:38
of Trump's return so one of the things
19:40
you need to think about is that that the
19:42
government I don't know about UK
19:43
governments I can only speak for the
19:46
American government has been run by
19:47
politicians for 240 years it's run by
19:52
lawyers Etc uh never by businessmen and
19:56
but every year you we used to hear oh we
19:58
should we should put what Mitt Romney
20:00
ran against against Obama put Business
20:02
Leaders in we let's put a business
20:03
leader in because he knows how to run a
20:05
business so he'll know how to run a
20:07
company that's not the case and we saw
20:09
with Trump the first time how many
20:11
conflicts of interest you know just yeah
20:14
but actually and you have to remember
20:15
that when Trump came into Power last
20:17
time he didn't have pretty much a
20:20
sweeping say as he does this time this
20:22
time he's got much more many more yes
20:24
people yes than he had the first time
20:26
around there were people who were
20:27
standing up to him last time there were
20:28
there were and that's absolutely the
20:30
case you know the problem right now is
20:32
that that the people who like him and
20:33
support him are so enthusiastic as as
20:35
much as I love Joe Biden and support Joe
20:37
Biden and thinks he he did a good job he
20:40
never ever has had that enthusiasm
20:42
people carrying Biden banners and people
20:44
ready to March through hell for him the
20:46
way the way uh uh Trump has and it's
20:50
it's it's good if you're Trump it's bad
20:53
if you're on the other side and it
20:54
becomes problematic but but what I was
20:56
going to say is he also needs to get his
20:58
facts straight as well cuz he doesn't
21:00
always that's true not that that seems
21:01
to matter a lot in American politics
21:03
they really are ying and yang aren't
21:05
they they really are the two sides to
21:07
the same coin when you come down to it
21:09
they're both very very boisterous and
21:11
very opinionated and and have these wild
21:13
ideas and and you know another thing I
21:16
was thinking about when I was having
21:17
lunch today was
21:19
that these guys remind me of of a couple
21:22
of people that I worked with and maybe
21:24
somebody that you've worked with or
21:25
anybody's worked with if you just sit
21:27
there and think did I never worked for a
21:29
boss that was kind of out there and had
21:31
big ideas and didn't care who he
21:33
offended and I think we've all had
21:34
bosses like that but never a boss who
21:36
was running a country but certainly the
21:39
the the amount of conflict of interest
21:42
between
21:43
SpaceX and and Tesla and and and all the
21:48
interest he has in China in Russia in
21:50
the US in the UK they're all coming to a
21:54
head and something's going to have to
21:55
happen I mean I I don't know what is
21:58
going to happen but there's a there's
22:00
such a conflict right now um I'm just
22:03
happy that we live where we live and I
22:05
can sit back and
22:06
say yeah how much does Justin Trudeau
22:10
resigning affect the United States then
22:13
um because let's face it I mean even
22:15
before Trump coming back in it's not
22:17
really been what you would call a
22:19
fantastic Ally in recent years there
22:20
seems to be a lot of an arguing going on
22:22
about immigration and the like yeah and
22:24
actually that's partly one of the things
22:25
that done for him at home immigration
22:28
Trump Trump uh Trudeau has has always
22:30
been pro-immigration he's been uh very
22:34
very liberal we all know that um and I
22:38
have to tell you something the the
22:39
relationship between the US and Canada
22:41
has always been smooth it's just been
22:44
there Americans love Canadians Canadians
22:46
for the most part like American
22:47
Americans just take the Mickey out of
22:48
Canadians it they just kind of tolerate
22:50
us but but Canada's a wonderful place
22:53
and and and uh you know we got along
22:57
well when trudos father was in there and
22:59
we got along well with him and and there
23:01
of course there were a lot of jokes but
23:02
apparently the whole thing about the
23:04
economy and the cost of living it it bit
23:07
him in the butt just like it bit Joe
23:09
Biden and so um he got that immigration
23:12
also and the immigration thing is a huge
23:14
thing so that country is you know
23:16
Canada's I would say always but in in in
23:19
my memory has always been uh I always
23:21
thought it as a very liberal country and
23:23
very compassionate but seems to be
23:25
swinging to the right a little bit and a
23:27
little little less time
23:29
course we did have the 51st state J as
23:30
well we from Trump you know I mean he's
23:32
trying to take over everywhere at the
23:33
moment Greenland included and he I guess
23:35
he thinks he's he's being funny by
23:37
saying oh we love he said there would be
23:39
no tariffs taxes would go down be
23:42
Totally Secure from the threat of the
23:43
Russians and the Chinese that are
23:46
constantly surrounding them and he any
23:48
he wants to charge them 25% tariff on
23:51
their on their Lumber I think that's the
23:53
main thing we we we get out of Canada
23:55
Lumber and uh um syrup and and things
23:58
like that so it's the Coalition
23:59
basically that that he had together
24:01
Trudeau that have stopped supporting him
24:03
the left leaning new Democrats um and
24:06
the correct nationalists as well uh that
24:08
have stopped really supporting him so
24:10
he's had to go and he's hung on for a
24:12
long time yeah yeah he's about what nine
24:14
years he's been in office but yeah it's
24:16
one of those things where even his
24:17
supporters are saying he's got to go so
24:19
if that's the case then you got to go
24:21
and the Liberals could could get quite a
24:22
beating in in a general election pretty
24:24
much so yeah so the whole country seems
24:26
to be being a little bit more
24:27
conservative and uh and that's just the
24:30
way the that's the way the pendulum
24:32
swings sometimes and and that's the way
24:34
it is I mean he went down to he went
24:36
down to uh maralago and met with Trump
24:38
and Trump uh uh they they seem to Cozy
24:41
up but in fact I you don't have to read
24:45
between the lines to know they didn't
24:46
get along well together and and Trump uh
24:49
believed that uh Canada could be doing
24:51
more could be paying more he always
24:52
believes everybody should be paying more
24:55
to to the country and so that's that's
24:58
always is going to be a Biv an issue it
24:59
doesn't matter who comes in after
25:01
Trudeau they're they're going to have a
25:02
problem yeah I mean 22% of Canadians
25:05
saying that they thought Trudeau was
25:06
doing a good job at the end of last year
25:08
it was pretty much on the cards wasn't
25:09
it very good okay Golden Globes I know
25:12
you're a lover you love the uh your film
25:15
uh life because you go all the time
25:17
don't you to the cinema I do go to the
25:18
cinema a lot and I do watch a lot of
25:20
movies in and did you see a lot of these
25:21
I did see a lot of them um uh
25:24
unfortunately the ones that ended up
25:25
winning the awards I did not see um I
25:29
have not seen the brutalist yet which is
25:31
about World War II and I have not seen
25:33
Amilia Perez uh or you saw baby reindeer
25:36
there didn't you I did see B baby
25:38
reindeer and I loved baby reindeer I
25:41
thought did you see it oh my God it's
25:43
great it's just great it's one of those
25:45
things one of those stories that if it's
25:47
if it's even half true it's unbelievable
25:49
but I have seen some uh uh some
25:52
interesting things I don't think this
25:53
was a terribly great year for movies um
25:56
one of my favorite movies uh that I saw
25:58
did not get nominated which was called
25:59
juror number two it's a Clint Eastwood
26:02
film um poor things was that last year
26:04
as well that you saw which one poor
26:06
things poor things you enjoyed that I
26:08
loved poor things but I don't think they
26:10
get any nominations they did it no it
26:11
was it no it was it was last year that
26:14
was year before okay she won she won
26:16
best won best but anyhow um uh I did
26:20
like Wicked a lot and that's one of the
26:21
few I've seen but uh we you know I I I
26:24
guess I've seen out of the like 30 films
26:27
nominated I think I probably saw maybe
26:28
15 or 20 of the films wow that's unusual
26:31
you right I see I see a lot of a lot of
26:33
movies yeah okay so but Amelia Perez the
26:36
big one of them yeah apparently it's a
26:38
choir taste you know it's a musical
26:40
about uh uh drug Runners and and so
26:44
we'll see strangely enough even though
26:47
we live in a Spanish language country
26:49
it's not available on Netflix really
26:52
espanol okay it is not be some kind of
26:55
legality thing I don't know what it is
26:57
but I can't U my my friend friends in
26:58
the states have all seen it and I have
27:00
not seen it yet but I heard it's uh I
27:03
know somebody who might be able to hook
27:04
you up with a coffee apparently
27:07
um okay uh Matt Gates has been begging
27:09
George Santos for advice uh a viral
27:12
makeup fail with this one uh went viral
27:16
then yeah Matt Gates we all know is is
27:19
the the the crook of the week and left
27:21
Congress and now has a show on Onn which
27:24
is this right-wing Network that a lot of
27:27
people know about that most people have
27:29
not watched and uh he looked really bad
27:32
and so he asked George Santos for makeup
27:34
tips that George Santos the same one we
27:36
laughed about a year ago when I first
27:38
started on this on this station uh yeah
27:41
and Santos said oh uh I'm really
27:43
concerned I thought you had botched
27:45
Botox or something which you probably
27:47
had I mean he's obviously had I wouldn't
27:49
say Obviously but it seems like he's had
27:51
quite a bit of Botox but uh he said
27:53
highlighter is not for you stop
27:55
highlighting the center of your face it
27:58
your eye very small and it gives you a
28:00
glow not the glow that it think that you
28:03
think it gives you I'm going one man
28:06
giving another man makeup tips there you
28:08
go okay well you want to catch it it's
28:10
one American News Network everybody ONN
28:12
that's right excellent and uh yeah I'd
28:15
like this story uh tell explain to us
28:17
what wh MO is well I had never seen a
28:20
driverless car because you don't really
28:21
see them in Europe but uh I was in
28:24
Phoenix with my wife and uh a a driver
28:28
car came up we were waiting on a on an
28:30
Uber driverless car came up with a big
28:33
when I was a kid you used to get these
28:35
ones which basically like driving school
28:36
cars you know and used to get a model
28:38
like that and it had a had a wheel on
28:40
the top that's exactly this is what it
28:42
looks like yeah and it pulled up and it
28:43
got a ring on top and and it had no
28:45
driver and I and so it it basically it's
28:47
a taxi without a driver it's a taxi
28:49
without a driver and they were all over
28:50
the West Coast they were in San
28:52
Francisco LA and in our case we were in
28:54
Phoenix but uh what happened was this
28:56
guy who was in uh
28:58
and he's from U I believe he's from San
29:00
Francisco but he's from La he was in San
29:03
Francisco and got in a cab in a in a
29:06
whmo no driver and the thing just drove
29:08
him in circles that's it it's in a
29:11
parking lot in a parking lot just drove
29:13
him in circles to the where he got he
29:15
was all he wanted to do is go to the
29:16
airport and ended up going in circles
29:17
but of course customer service is not
29:19
very good in these things and he tried
29:20
calling going hey hey I'm going in
29:23
circles you know I got a flight to catch
29:25
why is this thing going around and you
29:27
know I think eventually he reached
29:28
somebody but it took a while scary to do
29:30
that but yeah that is the way I'm
29:32
telling you if you if you are visiting
29:33
the states and especially if you're in
29:35
like in a West Coast City get one of
29:37
those they they look awesome our us
29:39
correspondent BR Reynolds here every
29:41
week uh back next week at the same time
29:43
as we head towards the inauguration um
29:46
in two weeks can't wait yeah
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